Quotes About Adversity

un príncipe que a toda costa quiere ser bueno, cuando de hecho está rodeado de gentes que no lo son no puede menos que caminar hacia un desastre.

Cudza zbroja albo spada ci z pleców, albo ci??y, albo gniecie

CzÅ'owiek, który pragnie zawsze i wszÄ™dzie wytrwa? w dobrem, pa?? koniecznie musi miÄ™dzy tymi lud?mi, którzy nie sÄ… dobrymi

Ne zaman bir sak?ncadan kaçmaya çal??sak bir baÅŸkas?na düÅŸeriz; ama saÄŸduyu, sak?ncalar?n niteliklerini tan?may? ve en az kötüyü iyi olarak seçmeyi bilmek demektir.

In a letter to Francesco Vettori of 18 March 1513, Niccolò gives us a vivid summary of his youth: 'I was born in poverty, and at an early age learned how to script rather than to thrive.' 1

Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves

What if the need to have a hard time is built into human nature?

By birth, certainly, they were not prepared in any way to achieve their desires. They were not the smartest kids in the neighborhood. They were not born the richest. They weren't even the toughest. In fact, they lacked almost all the necessary talents that might have helped them satisfy the appetites of their dreams, except one—their talent for violence.

But...as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse--a lot worse-- but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.

The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.

It has to get ugly before it gets pretty!

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

Change isn't always for the best.

I'm not sure anyone's life turns out exactly the way they imagine. All we can do is to try to make the best of it. Even when it seems impossible.

It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitable take their place; that every place has something good - and bad - to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast.

I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.

You should read something else. Why would he have done that to him? I don't know, she said. Do you ever feel like Job? She smiled, a little twinkle in her eyes. Sometimes. But you haven't lost your faith? No, I knew she hadn't, but I think I was losing mine. Is it because you think you might get better? No, she said,its because its the only thing I have left.

That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place. -Jo

She'd always believed that people come in two varieties: those who look out the windshield and those who stare in the rearview mirror. She'd(Julie) always been the windshield type: gotta focus on the future, not the past, because that's the only part that's still up for grabs. Mom throws me out? Gotta get some food and find a place to live. Husband dies? Gotta keep working, or I'll end up going crazy. Got some guy stalking me? Gotta figure out a way to stop it.

There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.

I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him.

Do you ever get scared? Yeah. Sometimes. It's not like you're walking around terrified all the time, even when things are going to hell around you. It's just you're....reacting, trying to stay alive. Things are happening so fast that you don't have time to think much of anything except doing your job and trying not to die. It usally affects you afterward, once you're clear. That's when you realize how close you came and sometimes you get the shakes or puke or whatever.

Hope, he learned, was sometimes all a person had